KYIV, Oct 18 - The Ukrainian market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), which until recently experienced a shortage of buyers, has been growing for the third year in a row, Serhiy Budkin, the Managing Partner of FinPoint Investment Advisers, has said.

KYIV, Oct 18 - Export-import bank SAUDI Exim Bank (Saudi Arabia) will provide state-owned Ukreximbank (Kyiv) with $25 million in financing as the first stage of support for importers of Saudi goods, services and products in the Ukrainian and neighboring markets.

KYIV, Oct 18 - Ukrainian business has worsened expectations regarding a slowdown in inflation over the next 12 months to 7.8% from 7.2% in the previous quarter, but improved expectations regarding the weakening of the hryvnia devaluation to UAH 28.50/$1 from UAH 28.71/$1.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Lockdown will not stop the morbidity statistics, but will exacerbate the crisis in the economy, Executive Director of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs (SUP) Kateryna Glazkova has said.

KYIV, Oct 16 – The state-owned PrivatBank (Kyiv) is completely blocked from managing the Latvian subsidiary PrivatBank, in which it owns 46.54%, and intends to withdraw from the shareholders, Hanna Samarina, a board member of PrivatBank, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 16 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide up to EUR25 million in loans to Dniprovska Municipal Energy Service Company (Dnipro) to improve the energy efficiency of 98 public buildings, including 67 kindergartens, 27 schools and four clinics.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Smart Energy, which incorporates energy assets of wealthy businessman Vadim Novinskiy, boosted natural gas output 11.1% on the year to 301.1 million cubic meters in January through September, the company reported.

KYIV, Oct 18 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said he will meet next week to discuss arrears in coal miners' wages at state-run coal mines, as well as other overdue payments in the coal industry.

KYIV, Oct 18 – A loan from the International Monetary Fund and spending cuts in December are needed to avoid significant downward pressure on the Ukrainian currency, a National Bank of Ukraine official said Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Kyiv's Economic Court has changed the way of enforcing a court decision to recover a fine of UAH 171 billion from Russia's Gazprom, extending penalties to all property of the debtor, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko has said.